On the Rule of the Road Personal freedom Public liberty colouring the hair red A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for pedestrians , but she replied: 'I'm going to walk where I like. We've got liberty now.' It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the b. Classify these pictures to show what they depict–Personal freedom/Public liberty.
12th - - On the Rule of the Road Page pedestrian to walk down the middle of the road, then the end of such liberty would be universal chaos . Everybody would be getting in everybody else's way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy . There is a danger of the world getting liberty-drunk in these days like the old lady with the basket, and it is just as well to remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means.
It means that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved , the liberties of everybody must be curtailed . When the policeman, say, at Piccadilly Circus, steps into the middle of the road and puts out his hand, he is the symbol not of tyranny , but of liberty. You may not think so. You may, being in a hurry, and seeing your car pulled up by his insolence of office, feel that your liberty has been outraged.
“How dare this fellow interfere with your free use of the public highway?” Then, if you are a reasonable person, you will reflect that if he did not interfere with you, he would interfere with no one, and the result would be that Piccadilly Circus would be a maelstrom that you would never cross at all. You have submitted to a curtailment of private liberty in order that you may enjoy a social order which makes your liberty a reality.